Recommended Works

For New Muslims and others interested in Islam, please consider reviewing this document created by Dallas Wright as a starter for resources online.

If you want to make any additions, please contact Dallas Wright at dallaswrightmp@gmail.com

To understand Islam, or Blackness in Islam, or anti-Blackness in Muslim communities and otherwise, please consider the following resources.

• The Holy Quran

• A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said, Omar Ibn Said

• Servants of Allah, Sylviane A. Diouf

• The Bilalian Project, Precious Muhammad

• The Sealed Nectar, Sheikh Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarkpuri

• The Walking Quran, Rudolph T. Ware

• Sapelo Square

• Sufism for Non-Sufis? Ibn 'Ata' Allah al-Sakandari's Taj al-'Arus, Translated by Sherman A. Jackson

• Revelation: The Story of Muhammad, Meraj Mohiuddin

• Muslim Cool: Race, Religion & Hip Hop in the United States, Dr. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer

• Worldview Podcast: Dr. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer and Professor Justin K.H. Tse, "The Nuance of 'People of Color': Racism Among Non-Black Minorities"

• Identity Politics Podcast, Hosted by Ikhlas Saleem and Makkah Ali

  • Episode 30: Ramadan Muslims

• Prince Among Slaves, Terry Alford

• African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transantlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles, Allan D. Austin

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